raising

1. 1.

   increasing in quantity or value

   “a cost-raising increase in the basic wage rate”

   Similarincreasing

Other forms of raising

plural

raisings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about raising

What does raising mean?

raising means "the event of something being raised upward". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in raising?

raising has 2 syllables: rai-sing. The stress falls on "rai". In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪzɪŋ/.

What is another word for raising?

Close synonyms include elevation, lift, rearing, nurture, breeding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is raising a common word?

raising is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with raising?

1 word rhymes with raising. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.